Numbers 23:16

So Balaam did that, and Yahweh appeared to Balaam again and gave him another message. Then he said, “Go back to Balak and tell him that message.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

In Context

15Then Balaam said to the king, “Stand here close to your burned offerings, while I go and talk with Yahweh.”

17So Balaam returned to where the king and the leaders from Moab were standing, next to the altar where Balak had burned the sacrifices. Balak asked him, “What did Yahweh say?”

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Cross References

Numbers 23:5Then Yahweh gave Balaam a message to give to King Balak. Then he said, “Go back and tell him what I told you.”

Deuteronomy 18:18So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 23:14-30

Balaam Again Blesses Israel. ( b. c. 1452.) 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. 14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder. 16 And the Lord met Balaam,… Read the whole commentary →

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